European football and collective memory / edited by Wolfram Pyta and Nils Havemann.
Is it possible for football matches or players to help forge a collective European identity? Pyta and Havemann seek to answer this question through a detailed analysis of how football games and stars are remembered across the continent. In this context, a range of important events and renowned playe...
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire :
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2015.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Football Memory in a European Perspective; Wolfram Pyta
- 2. How are Football Games Remembered? Idioms of Memory in Modern Football; Tobias Werron
- 3. Negotiating the Cold War? Perspectives in Memory Research on the UEFA, the Early European Football Competitions and the European Nations Cups; Jurgen Mittag
- 4. UEFA Football Competitions as European Sites of Memory: Cups of Identity?; Michael Groll
- 5. The Contribution of Real Madrid's First Five European Cups to the Emergence of a Common Football Space; Borja Garca-Garcia, Ram̤n Llopis-Goig and Agust̕n Mart̕n
- 6. Football and the European Collective Memory in Britain: the Case of the 1960 European Cup Final; Geoff Hare
- 7. Erecting a European 'Lieu de m̌moire'? Media Coverage of the 1966 World Cup and French Discussions about the 'Wembley Goal'; Jean Christophe Meyer
- 8. George Best, a European Symbol, a European Hero?; David Ranc
- 9. Heysel and its Symbolic Value in Europe's Collective Memory; Clemens Kech
- 10. Football Sites of Memory in the Eastern Bloc 1945-1991; Seweryn Dmowski
- 11. Rituals and Practices of Memorial Culture in Football; Markwart Herzog.